Feeding Attitudes of Pregnant Women With Diabetes
- Margreete Johnston, MD, MPH1,
- Cornelia Graves, MD2,
- Patrick G. Arbogast, PHD3 and
- William O. Cooper, MD, MPH1
- 1Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
- 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
- 3Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
- Address correspondence to Margreete Johnston, MD, MPH, 56 Old Club Ct., Nashville, TN 37215-1100. E-mail: margreete_johnston{at}hotmail.com
The importance of breast milk in early childhood health and development is well known (1). While feeding decisions are known to be strongly influenced by socioeconomic, ethnical, and cultural characteristics (2,3), the impact of chronic illness on feeding attitudes has not been extensively studied. We proposed to compare feeding choices made by pregnant women with and without preexisting type 1 diabetes.
We surveyed pregnant women, with and without diabetes, regarding their feeding decisions in six diverse practices in Nashville, Tennessee, representing …
